Realm of the InterNutter

All efforts to translate Adapting into Markup by automated means have failed abominably. Which means that I am left with copy-pasting text and then editing in the italics.

And when I've had enough of doing that, I go to my unsorted beads and frelling sort some of those shits out.

The lovely spouted bowl MeMum found for me is not that great with small, faceted beads. Those little shits tend to clump, so pouring large volumes of them into wee baggies is an exercise in extreme caution. Yes, I have a funnel that could help. No, I can't be arsed finding it.

But light appeareth on the horizon. Beloved is taking me out to see X-Men: Apocalypse this morning. On the plus side - a movie with potentially more Nightcrawler content than the last one with the fuzzy blue cutie.

On the minus side - it's going to be even longer before I'm done with beads and book.

I've sorted out a quasi-solution with Chaos' hair. Her short lock gets a mini-braid. The only problem with that is finding something small enough to hold it and strong enough to firkin stay there.

The clips that came with the new hair beading set do not close over her tiny braid. The beads in said kit do not stay on. I have found some small elastics, but they are too big for this baby braid. I might need to talk to some hair stylists about this mess.

And all because she decided to cut her own hair some years ago.

There's a reason why I name my little darlings "Chaos" and "Mayhem" on the internet.

I'm doing my first edit on Adapting today. I might even convince myself to transfer the entire text into Markup, so that Beloved will have an easier time making it dance for me. The more work I do beforehand, the less time it takes for Beloved to have it ready for any beta readers.

I'm thinking of sending out a new appeal. I can rely on MeMum and a single Friendo, and if I am lucky and can get Beloved to get

Eleven years ago, my life was made infinitely more interesting by the arrival of a slightly strange little girl.

Yesterday, she got as much purple and sparkle as we could mutually supply. Sometimes in the same thing.

And she also got to run around like a mad thing at Calamvale district park for a majority of the day. Good news - I can do moderately stable braid crowns by doing additive braids all the way around and then weaving the ends through

I've done my math on the matter and I reckon we should take off for our party at the park long about 9. That gives us enough time to get there, fetch MeMum, and do any other setting up before everyone else gets there.

It's just immediate family. We had no time to invite friends. And it's probably for the best because Chaos gets overstimulated just thinking about parties. Having a host of folks, food, and presents there might make her vibrate